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Tétouan, 
Morocco
469,642 people lived in Tétouan in 2025. It is the 1185th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Morocco.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Tétouan's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tétouan grew
For every 10 people in Tétouan in 1975, there were 27.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 560,016 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Tétouan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tétouan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Morocco · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Morocco and its 73 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Casablanca). Tétouan is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Tétouan covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.6 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 2.7 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Morocco
Its share of Morocco
Of every 100 people in Morocco in 2025, 1 lived in Tétouan, which is 469,642 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Morocco, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Tétouan's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1181 Faqous Egypt470,110
- 1182 Cox's Bazar Bangladesh470,100
- 1183 Sitapur India469,750
- 1184 Lüliang China469,647
- 1185 Tétouan469,642
- 1186 Kurnool India468,997
- 1187 Changge China468,159
- 1188 Brighton United Kingdom467,937
- 1189 Beilun District China467,912
In Morocco, 2025
- 602 Agadir869,990
- 743 Meknes722,852
- 940 Oujda583,116
- 967 Kenitra566,802
- 1185 Tétouan469,642
- 1655 Safi345,865
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Tétouan are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Tétouan publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries